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Why do the latest .mar files include new characters?

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johnkhopkins
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We use Firefox in an Enterprise environment as an alternate browser, and let our users choose which browser they prefer to use. Not all users open Firefox on a regular basis, so we have written a scheduled task that goes out and checks for an updated .mar file and applies it to keep the browser current.

Our task looks for a file named "firefox-version.complete.mar", but with version 56.0 and 56.0.1 we have found that the naming is actually "firefox-version.bz2.complete.mar" which causes a failure. Is the new naming convention which includes the bz2 going to be included in future releases and how will it be documented or communicated? Will it be standardized, for example all future releases will include bz2 or will they be randomly generated?

Any information on this change would be appreciated so we can update our internal task and continue to keep our install of Firefox current!

We use Firefox in an Enterprise environment as an alternate browser, and let our users choose which browser they prefer to use. Not all users open Firefox on a regular basis, so we have written a scheduled task that goes out and checks for an updated .mar file and applies it to keep the browser current. Our task looks for a file named "firefox-version.complete.mar", but with version 56.0 and 56.0.1 we have found that the naming is actually "firefox-version.bz2.complete.mar" which causes a failure. Is the new naming convention which includes the bz2 going to be included in future releases and how will it be documented or communicated? Will it be standardized, for example all future releases will include bz2 or will they be randomly generated? Any information on this change would be appreciated so we can update our internal task and continue to keep our install of Firefox current!
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cor-el
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I see both versions in the screenshot, one with bz2 and another without bz2 in the name. 

firefox-56.0.1.bz2.complete.mar
firefox-56.0.1.complete.mar

Aren't you finding the file without .bz2 in the name? If you test the name using a regular expression then it shouldn't be difficult to check for both names.

johnkhopkins
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I can't explain why it is picking up the file with the bz2 in the name, possibly because of the version we have installed (not sure if there is an Enterprise and Home user versioning).

Our task is set to look for a file called firefox-<version>.complete.mar and it fails as it seems to go after the file with bz2.

My question is why the file name has the bz2 included now, and if this is a new file naming convention?

cor-el
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How do you scan for this file?

Is this via a request that Firefox sends and the updated.xml file contains a link to this file?

johnkhopkins
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That's right. It looks for the download file which we have now noticed has the "bz2" included in the file name.

My question is will updates moving forward include the bz2?

If they do we will have to update the download link to include those additional characters.